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'Lies are flooding feeds': AI fakery raises US voter manipulation fears
Aug 05, 2024 (AFP)
In what is widely billed as America's first AI election in November, researchers warn that tech-enabled fakery could be used to steer voters toward or away from...
Vietnam's Communist Party names To Lam top leader
Aug 03, 2024 (AFP)
The Communist Party elected Lam general secretary at a morning session, the party said at a press conference, making him the most powerful figure in Vietnam's l...
Unfinished business: Indonesia's new capital has long way to go
Jul 31, 2024 (AFP)
Bar the centrepiece presidential palace -- winged like the national emblem, the mythical Garuda bird -- Nusantara is a series of unfinished buildings and bumpy ...
Supreme Court reforms a long shot in current US political environment
Jul 30, 2024 (AFP)
Democratic President Joe Biden unveiled proposals Monday to reform the nine-member court, which has lurched sharply to the right with the nomination of three co...
Indonesia president says 'everything in progress' at new capital
Jul 29, 2024 (AFP)
The capital is due to move from traffic-clogged and sinking Jakarta to the planned city of Nusantara in East Kalimantan province, but the project is months -- e...
Fresh protests loom in Venezuela in wake of disputed vote
Jul 29, 2024 (AFP)
Pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai to testify in Hong Kong security trial
Jul 25, 2024 (AFP)
The charges against Lai -- founder of the now-shuttered popular Chinese-language tabloid Apple Daily -- revolve around the newspaper's publications, which suppo...
Venezuela's military: election protector or repressor?
Jul 24, 2024 (AFP)
What is not clear, is which side it will back. Maduro's government, described as increasingly authoritarian, and an opposition convinced of victory, are both le...
The coconut tree presidency? Harris memes break the internet
Jul 22, 2024 (AFP)
Harris memes have been surging for weeks as the so-called "KHive" -- her online fandom -- pushed her as an alternative to her boss, President Joe Biden, to face...
Unsinkable: Trump riding wave of wins
Jul 15, 2024 (AFP)
As the only president ever to be twice impeached -- and twice acquitted -- and the country's only ex-president convicted of criminal charges, the septuagenarian...
France celebrates national day as political crisis rumbles on
Jul 14, 2024 (AFP)
Preparations to host the Olympic Games blocked the national day parade from its traditional route on the Champs Elysees, and a smaller military contingent will ...
Hungary's Orban meets Trump after NATO summit
Jul 12, 2024 (AFP)
The sit-down at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is likely to further upset Budapest's allies after Orban drew widespread ire from European counterparts for meeting Ru...
Several Catalan separatists return to Spain after amnesty
Jul 12, 2024 (AFP)
Rovira, secretary general of Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), a moderate separatist Catalan party, moved to live in Switzerland in March 2018 and has lived t...
NATO leaders vow to stand by Ukraine as doubts hang over Biden
Jul 12, 2024 (AFP)
The 32-nation alliance used the pomp-filled 75th anniversary gala in the US capital to showcase its resolve against Russia two and half years into the Kremlin's...
Spain court drops 'terror' probe into Catalan separatist leader
Jul 09, 2024 (AFP)
The move removes another legal obstacle blocking the return of the controversial Catalan politician who is hoping to benefit from a new amnesty law for those wa...
Starmer goes to Washington on first foreign trip as UK PM
Jul 09, 2024 (AFP)
He will reaffirm Britain's enduring support for the Western military alliance and Ukraine's fight against Russian aggression, he told reporters on the tarmac at...
NATO meets in Washington as questions swirl over Biden's future
Jul 09, 2024 (AFP)
The 81-year-old leader will try to use the three days of pomp marking NATO's 75th anniversary to reassure allies over US leadership, and his own ability to gove...
Chinese Premier Li congratulates new British PM Starmer
Jul 07, 2024 (AFP)
China is "willing to work with the new UK government to consolidate mutual political trust and expand mutually beneficial cooperation", Li told Starmer, accordi...
Starmer begins UK 'rebuild' after landslide election win
Jul 06, 2024 (AFP)
Starmer held the first meeting of his top team with Britain's first woman finance minister Rachel Reeves and new foreign minister David Lammy in attendance. The...
UK Labour's landslide comes with its own perils: experts
Jul 05, 2024 (AFP)
Before the vote, the Conservatives warned voters not to hand Labour party leader Keir Starmer the "blank cheque" of a "supermajority", but as prime minister he ...
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